The Region grants funds to firms whose structures or retrain existing ones. US-landing actors and celebrities and the GDP grows
Bari In mid-October Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, the coolest pair of Hollywood, had landed among the olive trees of the Apulian agro Fasano, to celebrate the wedding more celebrities of 2012, many had wondered: why there? Private flights from the US and Europe had transported star system in the ultra-luxury resort of Borgo Egnazia, one of the last structures (will be a dozen in the past five years), which have transformed what was a region with a prevalence of three-star hotels and especially of casual hospitality, in a kind of Italian California. Justin and Jessica, protected by strict security of ultra-luxury hotels and farms, were also granted to the country tradition complete with a welcome lunch at that Pezze of Greek-based bruschetta peasant and orecchiette handmade. Not only regular guests for nearly a month in the area of Beautiful actors who filmed part of the successful series with a lot of sixth marriage between Ridge and Brooke. The secret of Puglia, they say, is right there: luxury facilities, beauty farm outbuildings, thalassotherapy but also other and then a touch of rural civilization which is good and in fact makes it even more chic permanence. Are many, there are many celebrities who have made Puglia their retreat, the first of a Mario Draghi, ECB president, regular guest, silent and almost invisible to one of the farms of the new golden triangle. And so we multiply the five-star facilities, especially for the villages in the border area between the province of Bari and that of Brindisi, are like a win the Lotto.
In the annus horribilis of Italian tourism (-6 percent of arrivals and - 7.5 percent of overnight stays) Apulia stands out with his +5 percent of foreign arrivals. "Surely the Puglia - explains Silvia Godelli, Head of Tourism - in the decade 2000-2010 was the engine of tourism development in the South, ensuring alone more than half of this development." Private individuals, undoubtedly, have sensed the business and invested capital with high return. And the region has realized that a boost to GDP can and should get even and especially by the ultra-luxury farms. So much so that these days there are those who think the industry as a possible holiday compensation inevitable (negative) effect on Ilva regional wealth. Puglia Nichi Vendola also opens the chest launching an integrated program of facilitation (Pia) right on tourism. The goal is raising the quality standards of new structures, including through the functional recovery of properties to be used for tourist - hotel. Also provided funds for the construction of golf courses at least 18 holes, marinas, flying clubs, convention centers and auditoriums from minimum capacity of 2,000 seats, recovery of degraded and polluted urban areas and industrial areas to be redeveloped, to be devoted to the accommodation, conference, sporting, cultural and recreational or rehabilitation of a single green area of the surface of at least 200 hectares. In short, everything that makes tourism in Puglia red.